From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Teemu Likonen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New sync'd branch Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:19:23 +0300 Message-ID: <87ocq0l2hw.fsf@iki.fi> References: <878wh9qaku.fsf@sphinx.net.ru> <83praic5r5.fsf@gnu.org> <83d46gcnsb.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251451259 16734 80.91.229.12 (28 Aug 2009 09:20:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:20:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 28 11:20:52 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mgxdb-0006OX-OX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:20:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35844 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Mgxda-0006T5-VD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:20:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Mgxcb-0005TG-9U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:19:49 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MgxcW-0005PH-8K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:19:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59536 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MgxcW-0005P8-3V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:19:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mta-out.inet.fi ([195.156.147.13]:42839 helo=kirsi1.inet.fi) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MgxcL-0006Yr-Bp; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:19:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mithlond.arda.local (80.220.180.181) by kirsi1.inet.fi (8.5.014) id 4A77672B00DDE24E; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:19:24 +0300 Original-Received: from dtw by mithlond.arda.local with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MgxcB-0002E2-Nv; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:19:23 +0300 In-Reply-To: <83d46gcnsb.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:04:20 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:114734 Archived-At: On 2009-08-28 12:04 (+0300), Eli Zaretskii wrote: > First, you are probably working on GNU/Linux most of the time. By > contrast, most of my Emacs development is on MS-Windows, where > installing git is an adventure at best. Last time I looked (I'd love > to learn things changed since then), most of git were Unixy shell > scripts, which means I will need to install Cygwin or MSYS. Each one > of these needs its own share of learning, tweaking, and getting used > to. If I had this kind of time, I'd probably install GNU/Linux ion the > first place. The installation is just a click-click thing: http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/ This "most of Git were Unixy shell scripts" is no longer true. There are some shell scripts but they are some rarely userd low-level utilities which I don't even remember what they are at the moment. Git is C code now.